The Time of Tempest

Susan Kelley
8 min readJul 31, 2023

Family Life Should Not Be This Volatile. Not For This Long.

When my partner and I had young children, I knew to anticipate the stresses that come with infants, toddlers, elementary school children. The sleep-deprivation. The unexpected illnesses. The emotional squalls (theirs and mine). I expected life to be tumultuous for a while. That’s having kids!

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Susan Kelley

Susan is a runner, a mom of 3 grown children, and an avid traveler. She writes about humans, and wrote a book about false accusations of sexual assault.